Table of Exercises

Exercise 1.1   Installing Linux on Your Machine Exercise 2.1   Discovering the Use of Pipes Exercise 2.2   Using grep in Pipes Exercise 2.3   Redirecting Output to a File Exercise 2.4   Using Redirection of STDIN Exercise 2.5   Separating STDERR from STDOUT Exercise 2.6   Replacing Text with vi Exercise 2.7   Working with man -k Exercise 3.1   Managing Jobs Exercise 3.2   Managing Processes with ps and kill Exercise 3.3   Using nice to Change Process Priority Exercise 3.4   Running a Task from cron Exercise 3.5   Mounting a USB Flash Drive Exercise 3.6   Creating Links Exercise 3.7   Archiving and Extracting with tar Exercise 3.8   Configuring Logging Exercise 4.1   Setting Up Your Own Repository Exercise 4.2   Working with yum Exercise 4.3   Installing Software with yum Exercise 4.4   Finding More Information About Installed Software Exercise 4.5   Extracting Files from RPM Packages Exercise 5.1   Creating Partitions Exercise 5.2   Creating a File System Exercise 5.3   Setting a File System Label Exercise 5.4   Mounting Devices Through /etc/fstab Exercise 5.5   Fixing /etc/fstab Problems Exercise 5.6   Creating LVM Logical Volumes Exercise 5.7   Extending a Logical Volume Exercise 5.8   Extending a Volume Group Exercise 5.9   Reducing a Logical Volume Exercise 5.10   Managing Snapshots Exercise 5.11   Creating a Swap File Exercise 5.12   Creating an Encrypted Device Exercise 5.13   Mounting an Encrypted Device Automatically Exercise 6.1   Working with Services Exercise 6.2   Configuring a Network Interface with ip Exercise 6.3   Setting a Fixed IPv6 Address. Exercise 6.4   Enabling and Testing the SSH Server. Exercise 6.5   Securing the SSH Server Exercise 6.6   Setting Up Key-Based Authentication Exercise 6.7   Setting Up Key-Based SSH Authentication Protected with a Passphrase Exercise 6.8   Setting Up a VNC Server Exercise 7.1   Creating Users Exercise 7.2   Creating and Managing Groups Exercise 7.3   Logging in Using an LDAP Directory Server Exercise 7.4   Configuring PAM. Exercise 7.5   Setting Permissions for Users and Groups Exercise 7.6   Working with Special Permissions Exercise 7.7   Refining Permissions Using ACLs Exercise 8.1   Displaying SELinux Type Context Exercise 8.2   Switching Between SELinux Modes Exercise 8.3   Applying File Contexts Exercise 8.4   Working with SELinux Booleans Exercise 8.5   Enabling sealert Message Analysis Exercise 9.1   Determining Whether Your Server Meets KVM Virtualization Requirements Exercise 9.2   Preparing Your Server to Function as a KVM Hypervisor Exercise 9.3   Installing a KVM Virtual Machine Exercise 9.4   Working with Virtual Machine Manager Exercise 9.5   Changing a VM Hardware Configuration Exercise 9.6   Exploring virsh Exercise 9.7   Changing Virtual Machine Networking Exercise 9.8   Reconfiguring Networking in a Virtual Machine Exercise 10.1    Allowing Basic Services Through the Firewall Exercise 10.2    Configuring Port Forwarding Exercise 10.3    Building a Netfilter Firewall Exercise 10.4    Setting Up iptables Logging Exercise 10.5    Configuring NAT Exercise 11.1    Creating a Self-signed Certificate Exercise 11.2    Creating and Exchanging GPG Keys Exercise 11.3    Encrypting and Decrypting Files Exercise 11.4    Signing RPM Packages with GPG Keys Exercise 12.1    Changing the Base LDAP Configuration Exercise 12.2    Creating the Base LDAP Directory Structure Exercise 12.3    Installing the Schema File for DHCP Exercise 12.4    Creating an LDAP User Exercise 12.5    Adding an LDAP Group Exercise 13.1    Creating NFS Shares Exercise 13.2    Mounting an NFS Share Exercise 13.3    Using /net to Access an NFS Share Exercise 13.4    Creating an Automount Indirect Map Exercise 13.5    Creating an Automount Configuration for Home Directories Exercise 13.6    Setting Up a Samba Server Exercise 13.7    Setting SELinux Labels for Samba Exercise 13.8    Mounting a Samba Share Using /etc/fstab Exercise 13.9    Enabling an Anonymous FTP Server Exercise 14.1    Configuring a Cache-Only Name Server Exercise 14.2    Setting Up a Primary DNS Server Exercise 14.3    Setting Up a DHCP Server Exercise 15.1    Getting to Know Mutt Exercise 15.2    Sending a Message to an External User Exercise 15.3    Opening Your Mail Server for External Mail Exercise...